| The order on challenger: Large, drop, supersize that please | | | Author: | | | IP: | XXXX | | Date: | 07/30/99 10:07 | | Game Type: | Starcraft | | Labels: | Starcraft(1) | | Report Rating: , # of Ratings: 1, Max: 7, Min: 7
Lifetime Rating for HolyAnarchy{GK}: 5.8333 |  | Hello everyone, after reading many reports on terran kicking names and taking ass (or something like that), I decide to ditch Zerg practice and do a little Terraning.
El Mapo: Le Challenger
El Me: Bottom, Terran
El Him: Top, Zerg
Well, the game name was 1 vs 1 QUICK!, so I figured a 4-7 pool was in order. I started a rax on 8 as we chatted.
HolyAnarchy{GK}: Hmm, 7 pool?
Him: 4 pool
Him: Never Fails
HolyAnarchy{GK}: My rax is 800 =)
Him: Lier
Well, I walled in a bunker with 2 marines in it, waiting...waiting...still waiting...what the hell is taking him so long? I holler out "BLUFF!" and storm Deon Peon (I know I'm posing =( ) to check out the scene. 2 Hatchery's, a pool half done, 9 drones. I start a bunker near his mineral line, sending my 4 marines up to it. At 300/350, some lings bang the head of it, then bang their heads on my marines. Drat. I start 2 more rax'es, and settle in for a long battle...
The age of containment attempts.
I have a refinery, 3 rax, and an academy...hmmm...MMF anyone? =). I send 10 marines, 2 firebats, a medic, and an scv to his choke point, the Bats to deal with any pesky lings. I waltz up to his choke point and begin the foundations of a bunker, while adding on a comstat station at home. In run 12-18 hydras, for which I was totaly unprepared. I get a good chunk of them, maybe 10, before my remaining troops are erradicated. Drat. I try again, this time with 10 marines and 2 medics, and get cut down by huge amounts of hydras.
The age of wondering.
By now I start panicking, and make 2 factorys for tanks. I make 4, get siege, and wait. And wait. And wait. After some more waiting, I scan him to reveal some nicely grouped hydras (24?) with a few lings and sunkens, a queens nest beginning, no spire yet. Hmmmmm. What is he doing? I scan his island to see a starting exp, with a spore and sunken. I begin a starport and get the addon, while making M&M and the odd tank. I scan again to see a spire begining, and a hive morphing. Gaurdians anyone? This could get gucky in a hurry. M&M doesn't fair to well against gaurdians. I begin another starport and make 4 wraiths. That'll hold. Right.
The age of drops.
I make 2 dropships, load one up with 6 marines, 2 medic, the other with 2 tanks. I get to the water of his natural and see hydras at the very edge of it. I drop my tanks on the mainland and blast the odd hydra, then load up. He has a herd of them patrolling. Not getting near this baby soon, sad to say. I load up, thinking cliff drop, and run over 24 hydras, maybe, and the dropships are exploded (Tha t a word?)
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. (In my mind, candle is lit.) Hey! (The candle goes out. It relights) Hey! Mass M&M drop, with tanks on the ledge!!!) Genious me.
The REAL age of drops.
I float a CC to my natural and begn a refinery, putting 5 scv's on gas. Now I have 3 dropships of 1/1 M&M, and 1 with a pair of tanks. Brand new. UED brand, they were. I scan, and see no lurkers. On the way there, I spot a newly hatched...umm...hatchery, used to many hatches, with 3 little drones. I drop 14 Marines and 2 medics. Buh bye cute little drones. Buh bye newly hatched..umm...hatchery.
Uh oh. Counter attack. Looks like 3 control groups of hydras, having a break dancing contest at my island exp. Oh well. I'm commited to the drop now.
The age of carnage.
I bring my 4 dropships to the side of his main, the left side. 2 hydras take pot shots at the ships, which drop 18 marines and 6 medics. In run more hydras, 12 maybe, 0/2, which are cut down with me losing half my rines and medics. I drop my tanks on the ledge, and see my main is engulfed in hydras. Oh well. I lose. Fun time. =). My M&M's rip through an evolution chamber, a hatchery, and most other building, whie my tanks take the hive and a lot of hydras. Eventually, huge waves of hydras cut down my M&M's and kill the tanks. I know i'm done for. I tell him I'm writing the Br, and he promises to check it out. He better. =).
Lessons
0 M&M are good vs hydras, but not great. Tanks with MMF are best, maybe some Irridating Mr. Burn's in there.
0 Probably more then half the Challenger games end with drops.
Enjoy the pics that BETTER work,
Holy
You're semi-evil, quasi-evil, the margerine of evil, the diet coke of evil, just one calorie, NOT EVIL ENOUGH!!! -- Dr. Evil
| | Battle Shots! | 
The carnage at his base, after my 3 dropship M&M tank on ledge attack
the carnage at my base after his 36 hydra drop, which happened at the same time as my drop
Some innocent plugging for Battlereports.com (Brownie Points?)
The reason I wouldn''t have won: His island
Keep away with an e-bay for the ball
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